Japan-based Recosoft Corporation has announced the release of PDF2Office Personal 4.0 for Mac OS X. The release features significant upgrades for users including Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard support.

Apago has rolled out PDF Shrink 4.2 at this year's MacWorld Conference and Expo where the company is showcasing the utility for shrinking PDF file sizes.

Xilinx has sweetened the pie for FPGA customers using its royalty-free soft-core. The MicroBlaze soft-core gained an optional MMU (memory management unit) last fall, for "full" Linux compatibility, and is now bundled with free 10/100 Ethernet, serial UART, I2C, and

Linux mobile phone software and services provider Azingo (formerly Celunite) has hired a Motorola mobile-devices exec to lead its engineering operations. As VP of engineering, Ravi Gopalakrishnan (pictured at left) will oversee expansion of Azingo's mobile Linux engineering team.

A push graph control similiar to the graph control located in Microsoft's Task Manager.

ksar is a sar graphing tool that can graph Linux, Mac OS X, AIX, and Solaris sar output. A sar statistics graph can be output to a PDF file. License: BSD License (revised) Changes: Some typos has been corrected, and

Fedora Directory Server is a full-featured LDAPv3 compliant server. In addition to the standard LDAPv3 operations, it supports multi-master replication, fully online configuration and administration, chaining, virtual attributes, access control directives in the data, Virtual List View, server-side sorting, SASL,

asql allows you to run SQL queries against log files formatted in the Apache common log file format. You may load multiple log files into a session, then run queries using a full SQL implementation, to find things such as

pngphoon is intended as a successor to xphoon, which draws the actual phase of the moon on the X11 root window. Since the root window is not visible on modern desktops, pngphoon writes the graphical data to a PNG file,

Code Browser is a folding and outlining editor. It is a lightweight but powerful tool for structuring and browsing source code using folders and links. It is especially designed to keep a good overview of the code of a large

The Bubbling Load Monitor (or "Bubblemon" for short) is a system load monitor for the GNOME panel. It looks like a vial containing water. The water level indicates how much (electronic) memory is in use. The color of the liquid

tw (short for "Translate word") is a script that translates words in different languages. It uses internal dictionaries, the Google translation service, and free translation capabilities to translate a word. gtw (short for "Graphical Translate Word") is a graphical front

FBReader is an e-book reader. It currently works on the Sharp Zaurus, Siemens Simpad with Opensimpad ROM, Nokia 770/N800 Internet Tablet, Archos PMA430, Motorola E680i/A780 smartphones, PepperPad 3, Asus Eee PC, IRex iLiad, UMPC, and Linux/Windows XP/FreeBSD desktop computers. It

parlement is a mailing list and a Web forum moderated using Direct Democratic principles: votes and personal filters. It is also a P2P system that aims to implement electoral lists and PGP signatures. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:

Nuface is a Web-based administration tool that generates Edenwall, NuFW, or simple Netfilter firewall rules. It features a high level abstraction on the security policy set by the administrator, and works internally on an XML data scheme. Its philosophy is

Barcode Writer in Pure Postscript implements the printing of many barcode formats entirely within level 2 PostScript, so that the process of converting the input string into the printed output is performed by the printer itself. This avoids the need

RESTORE is an enterprise network backup and recovery solution for Windows, Novell, Mac OS X (data fork), Unix, and Linux systems. It is scalable to a complete backup solution for multiple workstations, servers, and data centers. It operates over local

The Zild C Database Library implements a small, fast, and easy to use database API with thread-safe connection pooling. The library can connect transparently to multiple database systems. It has zero runtime configuration and connections are specified via a URL

OilCan is a native Universal Binary multithreaded query tool for PostgreSQL. It supports multiple query windows and multiple queries in one window, and includes a basic schema browser. Each query window gets its own connection. All queries run in their

NeoOffice is a project that is developing a native Mac OS X port of OpenOffice.org with an Aqua look-and-feel. NeoOffice is under active development and is stable enough for daily use (NeoOffice/C is no longer under development). It provides the